coming up on r t breaking news in ukraine a large fire started amid the unrest in the southwest of the country killing more than thirty people probably un hold an emergency meeting over the violence an update just ahead. german chancellor angela merkel is in d.c. for meetings with president obama from ukraine to edward snowden and n.s.a. spying a report on the agenda between the two world leaders. and has the u.s. become a nation of pill popping children we'll look at the issue of overmedicating our kids later in the show. it's friday may second five pm here in washington d.c. i'm lindsey graham watching our team america begin with breaking news this evening

in odessa in southwestern ukraine dozens have been killed in a large fire connected with the unrest there but numbers have varied but local police tell the associated press that more than thirty people are dead after the local trades union house was set ablaze it began in the midst of a standoff between ukrainian government supporters and to kiev activists today it was marked by violence between those and to kiev protesters and the ukrainian military in fact at least three ukrainian troops and two and to kiev fighters were killed after the government launched a military assault on the eastern city of slovyansk which is held by n.t. government protesters artie's policy player reports. the word on the street is that the ukrainian army is preparing another advance come tonight fire day it has people here in the town terrified they think this is going to happen and as a result you have checkpoints like the one where i'm standing at every exit and entrance of this town but not only there as you travel around inside just about every road now in

a road block now sometimes they manned sometimes they just have tractors like this one sometimes they have trees that have been cut down just to close off that road people have been coming forward as human shields i've been talking to a number of women who say they want to be there and use their bodies to defend this city that they love and to stop ukrainian tanks from advancing forward there was also been a call for residents inside the town to remain inside their homes now there have been alarms sounding throughout the day friday most of the roads in the city same to all quiet shops have closed down there are some people moving about it but by and large most people are sitting in their homes watching news develop on their television screens this is a city that is in lockdown the city has been completely surrounded by the ukrainian army and it started with an assault at around five o'clock local time friday morning there were two helicopters that were shot down the casualty count on the ukrainian side is two pilots did one pilot is currently being treated in

a hospital not far from where i'm standing and seven ukrainian soldiers have been injured the count on the anti here protesters side is also two people dead and we're hearing that a number have also been injured i was talking earlier to one of the commanders he says that given that they are so ill equipped compared to the ammunition that is at the disposal of the ukrainian army it's a surprise that the casualty count isn't that much higher now russia is demanding that key have stopped this operation it says it will and needs to be held responsible for what has happened here on friday and that this operation is going to see the country divided. that is something that we are hearing people say that now there's no way back and that essentially the road forward is only a split ukraine it's not only in slab yawns that we've been focusing our attention in the city of adesa thousands of people took to the streets both pro and anti kiev there was stones being thrown there was violence we are hearing reports of injuries

we've been told that more than ten people have been injured the right sector was among those crowds they were shouting things like hang the jews so worrying developments coming out of a decision on the topic of the right sector we are hearing reports of the right sick to is inside slovyansk as well so it certainly does seem as if the right sector is operating they will see me jumping out of a helicopter with uniforms what that will right stick to uniforms they were heavily armed and they have people here terrified russian companies are now being banned to fly to do next and how to cough that is the latest news that we are receiving that ban of course being imposed by the ukrainian government at the same time the attack on slavyansk on friday is as i said earlier now setting the scene for further violence and for a country that is going to be divided russia is also calling on the united nations security council to convene as soon as possible to deal with the situation so as

fight a night approaches here in eastern ukraine people very tense people very frightened the situation seemingly about to escalate the r.t. slovyansk eastern ukraine. and emergency meeting of the united nations security council was convened today over the violence rocking eastern ukraine artist and wraps up the proceedings for us. a two hour meeting of the united nations security council the thirteenth time the council meets on the ukrainian crisis a second time this week the traditional blame game ensued with the u.s. and west blaming russia for the increased chaos and violence in eastern ukraine accusing moscow of lies and militarizing the conflict in the meantime it was russia that called for this session to take place basing the urgency of the meeting on what it called a resuming of military is the sion against its own people by the kiev government citing unraveling events as criminal misadventures that could lead to even more catastrophic consequences than the violence that has already taken place according

to russia the spoken intentions of the cool pointed kiev government voting to refrain from violence point to hypocrisy as words stand far from deeds this friday at the un russia called for the west to stop toying with the situation instead of telling russia where and how to keep its own troops on its own territory russia again reiterated that it believes the u.s. and e.u. have stood in the way of a peaceful solution to the crisis by stirring a bounce on the ground that escalated each time a visit of a u.s. official took place at the security council the u.s. accused russia of building a case for intervention thinking of truth as peace while moscow chooses seizing more territories well russia says the outbreak of further violence in ukraine needs to stop and returning to the geneva agreements is key to ukraine's representative at the u.n. said events unraveling in eastern and southeastern ukraine are aimed at tackling highly armed militants on the ground and that the only military in the east of the country are russian supporters of the meeting wrapped up with russia reminding the council that forceful change of power always leads to disability the ssion and that

russia had suggested a variety of formats for dialogue throughout the crisis and would never deny the implementation of any agreements that have been reached saying that the word lie that the west uses against russia can also be a selective interpretation of one's own position obviously pointing at washington's position and participation in the way events have unraveled the security council meeting wrapped up this friday with russia calling for the council to agree that all of its members are interested in the holding of violence as was recently agreed in geneva and fitch are going to r.t. . for more insight into u.s. foreign policy as it relates to the situation in ukraine i want to bring in colonel lawrence wilkerson former chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell colonel in your opinion what is the best thing for the u.s. to do right now and its own interests and in the interest of ukraine well it's difficult to answer that question without including the europeans and of course the members of nato and moscow. but when you put it in the way you did i would say what

the united states needs to do in conjunction with moscow and in conjunction with the e.u. and nato is move toward some position of neutrality towards ukraine i don't mean crimea but i mean what's left of ukraine crimea i think is a done deal and should be treated as a done deal and should be part of the negotiating posture that the e.u. and nato take with moscow but we need most sides to understand that a neutral you try to ukraine not one moving towards nato not anytime in the forseeable future moving towards nato and not one wholly under the sway of moscow but one that is left alone to get its act together it's a basket case right now governance wise financial wise economic and trade wise it needs to be left alone so it can work on its own problems in its own time and

more or less become a stable country that's not to say that others can't help it china turkey the united states brazil europe they can give it financial and economic assistance and even sign trade deals but it has to all be done in conjunction with a general appreciation of ukraine's neutrality that's the only way we're going to get out of this without a shooting war that grows ever more larger and causes some real problems. well when it comes to neutrality there's been a long time dispute over whether nato could go any further east after the end of the cold war now there's an there's an increased presence of the western alliance near the russian border and some talk of ukraine joining nato what is russia to do in a situation like this are don't blame russia i won't say putin because. i don't see putin as the best thing for russia right now but i don't blame russia the duma for example for applauding what putin has done. the u.s.

violation of its promises to gorbachev and to yeltsin when gorbachev acquiesced in the reunification of germany for example that nato would not go one inch further east were violated violated majorly by president clinton and continued to be violated by george w. bush i don't blame russia for its great power instincts to stop it so that's a big part of the negotiating posture both countries ought to take to the united states for example could wind up renouncing the agreement that i believe was announced in tbilisi where we said that we were looking for georgia to eventually eventually be a member of nato no american is going to die for tbilisi and article five applied to tbilisi would make nato a phony alliance immediately nato is having a hard time as it is anyway it doesn't have a result d'être anymore since the soviet threat went away and we're desperately

trying to find one for it out of our out of area operations being the latest attempt to do so in afghanistan and elsewhere so this is this is a complex problem but it does have answers to it it just requires exquisite diplomacy and a lot of ability on both moscow and washington's part to sort of look at the situation from as i said a nobody wins except ukraine and others who might get caught in this trap in the future and to back off from the great power desire to have more and more people adhere to your philosophy let's face it what the heck is the difference between the philosophy of most countries in the world today when it boils down to making money and getting rich at it's at its root. we have predatory capitalists in china we have predatory capitalism moscow we have predatory capitalists in washington indeed

we have predatory capitalist everywhere in the world so let's back off for a minute and let's everybody just concentrate on making money and not making war well said now are we seeing an american lawmakers american politicians wanting to push for a new cold war does it appear that way to you. i can imagine so when you have luddites like john mccain and others on the floor of the senate pontificating about how the president the united states ought to stand up to president putin and so forth this is all nonsense i would think that almost anyone in the world from beijing to rio de janeiro to moscow would have figured out by now that the united states congress is not someone to listen to when trying to figure out foreign policy of the united states ok a last question here now and it's no secret that viktor yanukovych had a history of corruption in ukraine and when he was accused of calling out the place on my down protesters he was demonized by a lot of people saying it was inappropriate to do now the government in kiev is

using force against protesters in eastern ukraine calling it anti-terrorist operations and so on the foreign minister sergei lavrov says this is a practice of double standards by western countries and kiev what do you think about this. again we're in the weeds there where in the tactical details which are important for day to day operations perhaps but they don't really matter in the greater scheme of things everyone has some guilt on their side the united states the e.u. ukraine itself. moscow. there is tactical daily current guilt on all sides and i've just admitted that the united states bears a large burden for its expansion of nato we need to forget that we need to push that aside and think about the present and the future and the only way to deal with this situation in order to do that is to achieve some form of neutrality for ukraine let the conflict calm down tamp it down and then work out some

deal if you will that allows ukraine to be neutral and to be independent and do its own thing economically financially and so forth with as i said the good offices in the help of the great powers and others in the world who want to offer it now this is going to happen with other countries too if we're not careful and we need to we need to stop this rhetoric that gets so high like that rhetoric on the floor of the u.s. senate and elsewhere and we need to think about this in the terms of we don't want another nineteen fourteen i could see how this could get out of hand rapidly we're talking about two major nuclear powers we're talking about creeping into sanctions that are going to cause tit for tat actions that are going to lead to more actions and then more actions this needs to stop and it needs to stop very

soon and people like john mccain and others on the floor of the u.s. senate and their equivalents in moscow need to stop the rhetoric otherwise they're going to regret it sorely in the future all right so i thank you very much for joining me retired army colonel lawrence wilkerson. the german government is keeping things nice and diplomatic for chancellor merkel's first state visit to washington since two thousand and eleven it's blocked edward snowden from giving evidence in person before its parliamentary inquiry into n.s.a. surveillance claiming and a letter to members of that committee that a personal invitation would go against the country's political interests and strain u.s. german relations instead it decided to offer snowden a written questionnaire the disagreement led to the resignation of the head of the committee just this month now for weeks opposition party members from the left and green party in the country insisted snowden appear in person last june the german foreign ministry rejected stoughton's application for asylum because it wasn't submitted in person on german soil but had he been invited now as

a witness he could have met those requirements putting pressure on the german government to accept possibly such an application opposition politicians say they plan to challenge the government's veto on that and the n.s.a. scandal has not only presented both chancellor merkel and president obama with political challenges at home but is also wounded personal relations between the leaders today in the rose garden to to address the issue along with the situation in ukraine as the united states is trying to push a very reluctant germany into harsher sanctions against russia r.t.f.m. sacks was there and brings us more. the two world leaders spoke to reporters today trying to disguise what's become an increasingly complicated relationship between their two nations chancellor angela merkel arrived at the white house for the first time since two thousand and eleven and she wields more power today and she ever has and arguably more than any of her recent predecessors that's because as the largest economy in europe and the defacto policymaker in the european union germany is

crucial to president obama's push for more sanctions against russia and right off the bat the two leaders made it clear that they will be working together on broader economic sanctions against russia should they be necessary the russian leadership must know that if it continues to destabilize eastern ukraine and disrupt this month's presidential election we will move quickly on additional steps including further sanctions that will impose greater costs i am firmly convinced that the united states of america and the european union need to act in concert here and they have done so in the past and then to continue to do so but the question is can merkel convince germans at home that more sanctions are in order at one point in the press conference president obama told reluctant germans to stop watching russian t.v. but the biggest opposition is saying since comes from germany's top business

leaders who rely on russian markets and are openly pressuring chancellor merkel to switch course still talking about ukraine gives the two world leaders a chance to publicly present a unified stand talking about the n.s.a. does not but they had to still as questions about spying dominated half the press conference merkel is facing heat at home for not responding forcefully enough to the n.s.a.'s activities in germany lawmakers in germany want the u.s. to agree to a no spy treaty with them but president obama said that. no such trivia exists with any nation and both he and chancellor merkel admitted that resolving the n.s.a. fiasco will require more work in the future we do not have a blanket no spy agreement with any country. with any of our closest partners what we are doing with the germans as we're doing with the french as we do with the

british or the canadians or anybody is to work through. what exactly. the rules are governing the relationship between each country because. this is at least ten times you know that the situation is such that we have a few difficulties we have to a kind of i so this is why there's going to be this kind of a dialogue. because this means and it's built this meeting this is also why they have any needs to be and will have to be more than just business as usual now before chancellor merkel returns back to germany she'll meet with the u.s. chamber of commerce and make a pitch for a new transatlantic trade agreement that's really the one issue on the agenda that she president obama and their business allies at home can see eye to eye on but don't expect any breakthroughs here either as trade deals have stalled in respective legislatures over concerns with handing too much power off to corporate interests so photo ops an ongoing dialogue happening at the white house today but

both leaders acknowledge that a lot of work is still left to be done. the white house in washington d.c. sam sachs artsy. school children in the united states are more medicated for mental health issues than ever before according to the centers for disease control among children aged six to seventeen seven point five percent are on some sort of prescribed medication for emotional or behavioral problems the study also found that children from poor families are more. likely to be medicated than more well to do children and the boys were more frequently prescribed psych meds than girls i was joined earlier by dr goli non-mental an associate assistant clinical professor at mt sinai health system she is also the author of your playlist can change your life i first asked her whether children are perhaps being misdiagnosed is there a legitimate rise in behavioral problems or has medical technology finally just

caught up with a preexisting issue here's what she had to say i think the thing include the diagnosis is the key and when the parents are young adults they would know it says that something is going on the emotional difficulties story inability to the constant very the i think the souce the c.e.o. the child psychologist child psychiatry because that i diagnosis is the key well i think the emotional disturbances are on that are us and the prescribe the medication psychotropic medication sometimes could be that those. which are. implemented but i think we all need to be aware of that of so many other therapists that are available in technologist david those based acknowledges therapists as they like to call behavioral therapy cognitive behavioral therapy groups that have been in mindfulness a very colorful to children to start with again stimulants could be of their gold standard for. that or but if we can start with behavioral therapy and understand

where those be here are all disturbances coming from that would be the key do you think there's a possibility that pharmaceutical companies are pushing for doctors to overprescribe these children that may or may not have a legitimate behavioral issue. well i think pharma company and this is their job and this. beautiful marketing tool i mean they can be sometimes a bit kosher but again i think it's up to the parents say young adults and to see the professional. they know what is the problem and the they make their choice and actually be aware of that again you know new technology. news that our putin dollars is as i mentioned mindful is their lexical behavioral therapy so not only with medications that are on the market which might be the key of course of

somebody who suffered from severe emotional disturbance ok so there's not just this medical medication quick fix there's also the long term stuff the fair a-p. that brings me to my next question you know the study also found that children from poor families are more likely to be on meds and boys more than girls why do you think might this be well i mean is that the sickly boys more often than the gills especially with attention deficit disorder with. their this is why boys in terms of the boys sammael a i think unfortunately maybe in some wonder sort of area that parents. are very well aware of the octomom doll it's a sort of vailable as i mentioned. this mindfulness device you beg this is maybe why the medication becomes the truest because i mean that's just the fast fix them

and stimuli of that as advanced with somebody who can sleep a little is anxious. in fact ideally hope all therapeutic model to say that this base model is this would be available so the medications might not the. ok well this is the worrying part about the possibly the over medicated children another study just released shows that kids and young adults who are niche initiating therapy with antidepressants especially at high levels are seeing a higher risk of self harm now is this because of their state of mind before hand their mental state beforehand or do the drugs play a role. well i think that it was a warning before when a but if there are bands of the press. harm but again if somebody is suffering from severe mental just thought of this for example the bipolar disorder or depression so this is psychotic there's that provide that it doesn't have a choice this is would be the best way to go all begin i mean there were some cases

within these and so farm while prescribing answer depressants it's usually we're talking about children we're not talking about the dolls of the t.v. and so there are some cases that is this is sensitive because it's getting through so far but again i think you. wait pros and cons in the really make the decision. that is very important. all right thank you very much dr assistant clinical professor at the mt sinai health system. thank you for. that does it for an average body for more on the stories we cover go to you tube dot com slash r t america check out our website or to dot com slash usa can also follow me on line on twitter at lindsay france see eight o'clock. and so far. lead

legislation and the finish line of the marathon. was. the lead. this story is about the government messing with something it will do year americans they're trying to limit and control something that is one of your greatest treasure and it is an outrage i'm talking about your beer or americans

microbreweries are all the rage right now small local breweries are opening up across the land offering beers that taste like everything from berry just chocolate to well you name it they're all over the place and everyone loves them and they're great examples of how small businesses are supposed to work here in this country this is supposed to be where anyone can open up a business and achieve the american dream right who doesn't love that especially when it involves beer i'll tell you who doesn't love it but florida beer wholesalers association and probably all the giant beer distributors across the country that's who they don't like these craft breweries cutting into their profit so what's a giant beer distributor organization who is controlled beer distribution in florida for decades supposed to do sponsor legislation and donate to political campaigns of course because that's what works here in the u.s. and it just didn't work again because the florida senate just passed as these

seventeen fourteen which restricts how much craft breweries can sell the bill allows microbreweries telling up to two thousand kegs a year of their own brew to sell beer in any size container to consumers but if they sell more than two thousand cases a year the bill prohibits them from selling their beer in fields at bottles that contain. for home consumption directly from their microbreweries now will have to go through distributors this same distributors represented by the florida beer wholesalers association who backed the bill now the small brewers have to buy their own beer back from the distributors had marked up prices which is not only idiotic but could potentially run the small breweries out of business. the legislators who voted for the bill are trying to say it's preserved just take the beer distribution system as if the existing system is something holy to preserve at any cost when

they're not saying openly that the florida beer wholesalers association just doubled its contributions to all of their reelection campaigns so there you have it nothing but a classic case of big business and government cronyism squashing smaller businesses right out of existence it's an outrage every time it happens but you should be marching in the streets about it this time my fellow americans because this time it's about your beer tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident.

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repression and violence is the middle east. by western. cross-talk the arab spring i'm joined by my guest the bill ramadan the in london she is a journalist and commentator on arab affairs also in london we have toby cadman he is an international criminal lawyer and serves on the board of the syrian commission for justice and accountability and in norman we cross to joshua landis he is director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma right cross talk rules in fact and you can jump in anytime you want to go to you first in london you wrote an article recently egypt comes full circle the end of the arab spring why did you write it and what does it mean. whoa i've been following events in egypt for some time i joined a group of lawyers in november that was looking at documenting crimes that occurred

during the recent military coup and then following the. targeting of the muslim brotherhood and their supporters we saw a court sentenced five hundred twenty nine people to death many of them sent to you and i as an international lawyer i found the whole process i'm so fences that i thought that the right about nobility and we should we still used to term arab spring or arab awakening is that appropriate anymore because if we go across the entire region if there is a lot of tears to say the least. well of course the term arab spring for a start was coined by western journalists to describe the did spectacular scale of movements of protests that swept across the middle east and north africa three years ago now and also to describe the domino effect of those protests effectively affecting one country are after the other in the region and egypt specifically even

though the arab spring the so-called arab spring started in tunisia. following effectively the humiliation of a fruit seller by a police woman a vigilante effectively who led this fruit seller to set himself on fire but that self immolation was in fact the expression of frustration at the the series of problems affecting the arab world not least of all and first and foremost you know autocratic rule for decades often in many countries but also endemic corruption lack of opportunity social and economic opportunities and you know the lack of fundamental human rights in egypt has effectively become the focal point to have a square has become the focal point of the you know hope and optimism but it also has become the country which sums up both disick sess of the arab spring it was

swift mubarak was removed in eighteen days and also captures now the failure of the arab spring with effectively the return of a military strongman backed by a corrupt judiciary and indeed a murderous army but it has to be said that the arab spring these are not going process it by no means ended. and it's still going on you know crucially in countries like syria where the civil war is still very you know if you're very much lately going to trial and let me go to joshua judge would you like still like the term arab spring arab awakening is it does it resonate with you now considering what we've seen particularly in egypt and i guess also as newbuild pointed out in syria. well it doesn't really anymore and the below is absolutely right the west gave it the name of arab spring because the west looked at this through the prism of democracy and. and tried to explain what broke out from tunisia through the

rest of the arab world in terms of a desire for dignity and democracy and of course that wasn't a very important part but there was a much larger story which is the economic pressures that nebula pointed out and the growing pains of national definition of coming out of the dynastic empire the ottoman empire and trying to develop some kind of national integrity where the nation the people below would actually be the sovereigns of their own destiny and of their nation to be able to decide what kind of governments we have sort of broken halfway through that and then we've gone to this reaction because in many ways we've seen the crumbling of very weak nation states in libya in syria in yemen and it's created. it's created great fear throughout the middle east that somehow the arab states are not going to be able to break in to this democratic.

fourth wave that so many people hoped it would do because of economic failures failures of political culture and very few people have talked about the political culture side of this and but really i think underneath it all is an economic question of poverty inequality and so forth you know toby if you look at it we could name all the countries but it seems like them most of the elites are still in place the deep state is that it's often referred to you can change the coloration of the landscape but it's still the same people that own the economy and benefit from the economy and not average people. do i think that's right. wolf. of is is entirely correct. one of the one of the concerns is. certainly in in my work looking at syria and egypt is looking at the

economic instability not just trying to. look at it through the prism of democracy but looking at these nations can. we can stabilize long term i mean i spent before many years before the arab spring i spent many many years in bosnia dealing with with many of the same problems. from an accountability perspective and rebuilding a state through economic development and you see the collapse. in bosnia repeating shows that we really we haven't learnt very much in how to address many of these problems whether you're looking at it through. a process of accountability or a person saw of economic rebuilding but it is more that we just don't seem to learn it joshua pointed out and you put it at the beginning that the arab spring arab awakening this is a western cerm but really what's happened also is that we have political islam on

the rise as well added with a lections and this is a complication that the west certainly doesn't understand and is joshua pointed out maybe there aren't political cultures in place that can adapt to the islamic element with the democratic and secular element this is one of the huge stumbling blocks that we've seen over the last few years well absolutely not just over the last few years but if you look at. western powers have always supported so-called secular governments in syria for example or indeed in iraq and the idea is you put a minority of people in charge of the country and there you divide and rule and that's what's happened you know. fundamentally in the make up of most countries in the middle east following the. first world war when a victorious powers effectively carved up swathes of the middle east and to

themselves then and indeed put in place the so-called secular governments now of course part and parcel of the culture of those countries is that they are fundamentally for the vast majority of them muslim majority countries so it's only right that you know people feel a cultural but also religious attachment to that heritage and this of course following the toppling of despots led to the expression of that culture and led to a movement or winning elections and all the more so since you know you have to bear in mind events like the war on terror where you know this led to america effectively telling autocrats to repress any expression of islam where and muslims became you know potential terrorists across the arab world and the takeover if you

like of muslim always movements post arab spring has led to some dissatisfaction in western capital gains if you judge or how much of this is really just the end of the the neo colonial experiment the west has had for this region because this is also a dynamic that's being played out in the bill of. well there is that element that she said that minorities were put in to were given a leg up in every one of the eleven states in particular by the colonial powers and today you see the majority populations trying to overthrow them whether it's the shiites in iraq overthrowing the sudanese the sunni arabs in syria overthrowing the alawite sect and other minorities are we saw in lebanon during the civil war with the muslims fighting against the christians who had been given the lion's share of power and still today we have palestinians fighting against israelis and jews in for control of palestine so this is a national problem. of who owns the state who really

represents the nation that's certainly in the levante and it's much like we saw in eastern europe central europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century where there was such extreme bloodshed we're still seeing it in crimea who are the real crimea is are they russians are the ukrainians are they talk tars and and these national questions have not been decided and in the center of it as you say is political islam and is the question of the enlightenment really is citizenship based on. troops with a big t on god and who are the chosen people who are going to go to heaven or is it based on citizenship of the nation of that everybody is equal within the nation and that there is still great disagreement about that and we see that in the syrian fighting for example both sides are calling each other caf it unbelievers and not only are they unbelievers but they they don't belong to the nation to syria if they

don't believe in the right god and it's very difficult to build a nation when you see the other. your opponents your political opposites as people who don't even belong in the country and that rights to civil war joshua let me jump in here we're going to go to a quick short break and after that break we'll continue our discussion on the arab spring stay with r.t. . as. we welcome there are native to two of the coast on the r.t.e. network. it's going to give you a different perspective give you one star never give you the information you make the decision. about how bring you this revolution the mind it's

a revolution of ideas and consciousness. it's very very probably would be described as angry i think in a strong no one single. i'm. trying to. thank all. my. colleagues. here but. i.

welcome back to cross talk where all things are considered peter lavelle true mind you were discussing the arab spring. ok i'd like to go back to the bill in london i think one of the interesting things that happen in the last few years in the region is saudi arabia's role in a very reactionary regime and its funding quite a few people that are just as reactionary in the region and i'm thinking of like the military government in egypt of course we have the civil war going on in syria but this is a big important dynamic as well saudi arabia's new role or growing role and political change. well absolutely and not least of all because saudi arabia is absolutely terrified that to see arab spring happening again that's why it's reacting in the most reactionary and indeed repressive are not trying to protect matter man or interfering not only you know interfering in what's

happening around around saudi arabia and other indeed turn of affairs of other countries and it has you know. terrified as i said because they give witness to switch to change that can happen very suddenly in countries and see. despots being toppled almost overnight and that's why it also sought to strengthen its links with western democracies and seek further help and not least of all in terms of military help it has you know we've seen powers western powers like the u.k. france and indeed america sell vast volumes of weapons to saudi arabia and straighten its business and trade links so if for some democrats think that it's the right time to reassure not socratic regime likes i would be a rapier it really doesn't get disappearance of the arab spring you know tobie it's

very interesting because you have this regime in riyadh then you have washington again it's a stressful relationship we're told but nonetheless he continues on so we have western values and we have values coming out of riyadh they don't actually mix very well do they but that's called religion we're told. it's a very interesting way of putting it think probably the relationship is very similar with my own government here in london. because we can see that there is because of the steps the saudis have taken in relation to the brotherhood. in that part of the world and a lot of the statements of issued in relation to to egypt in particular and you can see the relationship now with the british government in conducting what's driving called a review of the muslim brotherhood here in r.t. kingdom it is an it is an uneasy relationship but you can still see that the saudis

are using their influence on on the western powers it joshua it seems to me that the saudis and the western powers have something in common they don't like to say it publicly but they they would like to prefer they would prefer to have some kind of or a republican militarism in the middle east states that's more manageable for the two sides that i'm talking about. well they don't know i think the united states is in complete confusion about what it wants in the middle east anymore our main relationships are with israel and saudi arabia both powers have wanted military leadership in egypt and that's been a driving force in this arab spring and america has fallen in line with them and that has confused there are discourse about democracy entirely and so we begin to look extremely hypocritical there's no doubt about it we're helping we're allied with the most islamist and fundamentalist nation in the middle east and that of course you know so when saudi arabia speaks out against atheism and and

other political parties the united states is confused how do you support a pro western element in syrian opposition when saudi arabia is in charge of funding this operation america's not going to fundamentally supply it so america has really stepped out there confused they've seen syria for example become much more to ask the recent advances in the north a country by rebels has been led by the know sort of the al qaeda element and and the united states is is for the rebels and yet at the same time it's against al qaida and it doesn't it's completely confused and and that has you know that has i think led to america with drawing from the region. ok you know bill i mean. it's hard to say you know bill look at the outside forces particularly the western powers i mean they drew all these boundaries in the first place how they are acted

responsibly because joshua points out you get very different messages you have democracy promotion but you have to protect israel and then you have saudi arabia which i don't think anybody really knows what to do with anymore because they have enormous wealth in the city of london in the united states and the there is plenty of people in the west just want to turn a blind blind eye to their activities when it's so contradictory almost on every single front. well yes absolutely and as joshua rightly said what the arab spring did this bring into sharp focus the ambiguous and indeed hypocritical relationship between western governments and the arab world and america's foreign policy in particular is interesting because obama. obama's first and foremost aim is to maintain america's interests in the arab world in particular but he has

actually trying to find a balance between achieving that and indeed while actually retreating as much as possible which lead to very muddled policies in the arab world and indeed confused one as joshua said and effectively let to the status quo as we've seen in egypt you know america is still funding the military and effectively supporting a murderous army and a stable militarized is good for to reassure israel libya was the closest that the americans you know intervened in fact and he has led to now a very controversial intervention in a country now ruled by militias which is which are destabilizing not only and threatening. libyan. lives but also lives in other countries in the region and as far as the middle east peace process is concerned than sample palestinian

territories are still very much under israeli occupation occupation goals are is more than ever an open air prison and indeed america is not firm at all about you know freezing the settlements illegal settlements which are the major stumbling block to finding a peaceful solution and let's not forget that a peaceful. settlement of the middle east process and the resolution of these really palestinian company is also a guarantee for stability and peace in the whole of the region you know job we have done so far over the last few years to go essentially nowhere it would seem. but it is quite right and i think both of what joshua said is completely right when we're talking about back confused politics and not really knowing how to address some of these problems would be looking at syria in particular. that you know we have unfortunately very very confused western capitals knowing what to do how to provide

support whether intervention is just fine it. has become a very very difficult situation knowing. really what kind of assistance and who can be assisted i mean this is syria is one of the areas where where i've spent the majority of my time not physically obviously working over the last few years and in trying to look at a much more on a on a just a side rather than a political transition just because it is it is very difficult at this stage to have any viable political opposition that can be in place to to to implement some form of change and i don't think that we've advanced very far and i think the confused policies of the west has contributed to a lack of

a cohesive strategy and here we are no further forward than we were three years ago but there's one difference josh if i go to you there's one difference and that is the possible reaching out to iran and this is something that we have we've never we haven't seen for what three decades and now we see we have this terrible mess going on in the middle east but we still have some kind of communication with god and i think that's a really interesting irony well it is that but before i talk about iran let me jump in and say it's very easy to blame much of what's going on on the west and it's confuse policies and they certainly have been they have been very contradictory over the decades the but i think it's important to underline that much of this is going to rest with the middle easterners themselves they have to find a way out of this their populations have become too big in many ways this is like. central europe after world war one the great powers drew lines after the empires

were destroyed and in europe there were seventeen new nation states after world war one in the middle east there were many as well and the peoples were not reorganized to fit with the national borders that were drawn and what we saw during the second world war is an extremely bloody process in which minorities were destroyed and the great sorting out is what i call the joshua fitting very important to me a you thank you for a cast that in the middle east the great sorting out because we are essentially saying ethnic cleansing is happening it is what happening before our eyes it is happening ethnic cleansing and we've seen it go on as as people fight over who's nation it is we are seeing minorities get destroyed in some cases the minorities have become the majority in palestine israel the minority of jews were able to destroy the majority of palestinians and make themselves into the majority and that's what we've been seeing and palestinians have been largely left stateless and

and but this process in lebanon in iraq in syria has been going on it's very painful it's very bloody and it's much like what happened in central europe where poland was sixty four percent polish before world war two by the end of world war two almost one hundred percent and czechoslovakia twenty three percent minorities by the end of world war two they had been wiped out the germans said denton's the jews and so forth and this national building process which is the extraordinarily painful and brutal is taking place in the middle east and there are many losers and i think the west is confused because there's really very little that could do it try to go into iraq and rearrange the power sharing and it failed miserably on that very different things you know josh it would have run out of time many thanks to my guests in london and in norman and thanks to our viewers for watching us here in our d.c. . next time remember. lem's

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this was in the washington well it's a mess that is being suggested in the latest numbers among the many candidates are perceived to issues actually back to him doesn't do too much for ad revenue michael tech agriculture giant teats on a seventy six year old american farmer based in indiana. do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a race america's the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but one i gave real alternatives of points on that working for the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes

a problem. ah. ah it was a little we will stand for europe the white europe the traditional europe for the free nation europe right. they should be arresting all the terrorists in kiev instead all of the presidential candidates the military junta the nazis who gave orders to kill their own people just because their culture and their views in different. ways what will slavs those we have to live in peace with brothers we shouldn't fight each other one people will bring this.

the friday on abby martin and this is breaking a set so yesterday's one of the most significant victories for american workers in years seattle mayor ed murray announced it had struck a deal with city politicians business leaders and labor groups to raise the city's minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour if the measure passes city council as expected will make the minimum wage in the emerald city the highest in the entire country and it's important to note that this increase will be gradual businesses with more than five hundred employees will have three years to meet the wage standard while smaller ones while all the way up until twenty twenty one but once in effect the minimum wage will automatically increase two point four percent every

year regardless of the inflation rate and this is what i have not been possible without seattle city council member sharma so want who has made the fight for fifteen the central tenant of her time in office two weeks ago she appeared on the show to discuss why this battle is so important. if you don't a minimum wage was increased it has been beneficial to the local economy because when low wage workers get a little bit of spending money in your pocket they go to spend a little bit of because they don't have the money to fly all the better for a vacation so you not only do minimum wage increases improve local economies the practice is good for the businesses themselves study after study has shown that increased wages lead to less job turnover and higher productivity among employees not to mention the billions of dollars that would be saved in social service spending in fact a study published by the center for american progress found increasing the federal minimum wage from a pathetically low seven twenty five an hour to ten dollars and ten cents would cut food stamp spending by four point six billion dollars

a year and the growing amount of pressure on multinational corporations that refuse to pay their workers a living wage is leading to major men. all across the country just this year connecticut maryland and hawaii all passed minimum wage increases to ten ten an hour so even though there's still a long way to go to ensure that every person can make a respectable living out their profession today we can stand in solidarity with workers all across america now let's break the thread. please they are very hard to take a. look. at or how to act with that that they're looking.

at least. at least. two days ago a train derailment in lynchburg virginia dumped fifty thousand gallons of crude oil into the james river the images you're seeing now are of the james river completely engulfed in flames the massive fire prompted a partial evacuation of downtown lynchburg and led to the shutdown of nearby roads and a bridge about fifteen train cars derailed three of which caught on fire but luckily there were no deaths or injuries at this disaster wasn't bad enough an oil slick now stretches nine miles down the river according to a virginia environmental office this is the fourth accident of its kind in less than one year and while there haven't been any reports of the spill directly

affecting drinking water yet the full extent of the environmental impact is yet to be seen and get this see as x. the same company that was responsible for the spill in virginia had another derailment less than twenty four hours later in neighboring maryland but this time the train cars were carrying eight thousand tons of coal before they went off the tracks great national transportation safety board is still investigating both crashes which clearly underscore the dangers of moving these fields across the country by. i rail as well as the poor oversight and blatant negligence when it comes to the deteriorating infrastructure of rail transport it's no secret either according to federal government data there was more oil spilled from train crashes in two thousand and thirteen than in the previous four decades come behind think about that for one second while over one million gallons of crude oil spilled from derailed train cars across the country just and twenty thirteen yet rail remains the number one preferred mode of transportation for oil companies that's not the

only way oil is being moved hundreds of thousands of miles worth of pipelines traverse the length of the u.s. creating a massive potential for environmental and human disasters but if you're sitting there thinking oil spills are rare according to lisa p. jackson the former e.p.a. administrator approximately twenty thousand reported each year to the federal government that's fifty four spills every single day occurrence somewhere in the u.s. and what didn't you know it just this week a pipeline and alaska was punctured yet another to blame b p my favorite corporation to blame for covering thirty three acres of some of the most pristine land in the arctic with a quote oily talk sick mist of chemicals. but of course the story doesn't end there the pipeline spill is actually the third time b.p. has poisoned the precious alaskan tundra and what lands before this week the

corporation was responsible for a spill in two thousand and six and another in two thousand and nine which spewed somewhere around fourteen thousand gallons of oil following the two thousand and nine spill u.s. government attorneys stated quote this rupture was the result of a predictable and preventable freezing of water within the pipeline that caused the pipe to overpressure rise and burst early similar to the two thousand and six spill b.p. ignored alarms that warn that the pipes eventual rupture and leak. i'm a shock to b.p. ignored red flags that eventually lead to a widespread disaster it couldn't be so once again it's negligence at fault for putting profit over the planet the most importantly it should be noted that the more we transport oil and coal by rail or pipeline more these accidents will continue the more lives we put in harm's way and the more environmental destruction will occur and all these disturbing stories go to show that no matter what the dirty energy lobby claims transporting crude and cold by any method is far from

safe so even if environmental activists win the battle and prevent the keystone x.l. pipeline from being built we cannot let up in the fight against these hazardous and destructive energy sources because in the end the powers that be will stop at nothing in order to transport their toxic sludge all over the world i. i. luckily for the corporate media are weak of nonstop coverage of ignorant vow to rancher clive and monday a new race this villain emerged to take over the spotlight donald sterling owner of the l.a. clippers basketball team was recorded telling his girlfriend slash mistress not to publicize pictures of herself with black people nor bring them to the games despite the fact that his team is nearly entirely made up of african-americans of course his league commons unleashed

a media firestorm over network from m s n b c to fox hosting panels on race in america and unsurprisingly they missed the point donald sterling's comments were vile but the real issue concerning race in america is a structural problem for example take a look at the n.b.a. beyond donald sterling's comments were in a five thirty eight in two thousand and thirteen seventy six point three percent of n.b.a. players were african-american compared with just two percent of the league's majority . owners in fact michael jordan is the league's only black owner sounds like the n.b.a. has a race problem but alas expecting the mainstream media to delve into the real issues of race in america even within the n.b.a. would be far too complicated and said we should all be shocked that yet another old white man is making ignorant comments one hundred twenty nine to talk about some of this week's praises stories as well as what else the m.s.m. missed as attorney nationally syndicated radio co-host of ring of fire mike papantonio thank you so much for coming on and they seem to have you on so the

public's outrage and of course the media's outrage of donald sterling sure warranted however they go into a fever pitch and i can't help but ask why not any feigned outrage at least the very least over structural institutionalized racism like stop and frisk in the president does feel complex the media loves to talk about the idea of big ideas are called media. understand the sterling stories a great example yesterday the sterling story was about racism today it's about who leaked the information it's the nature of mainstream or corporate media and you know if you think about it they have a big advantage of moving that story every every every day and that's what's imagine if they spent as much time to c.n.n. for example we've been looking for the plane it's a terrible tragedy but what if see it in that same power that same influence and paid attention to issues is important to raise truth is their advertisers don't want to do it and so they move on from it right absolutely and speaking of lunatics

i guess i should even be surprised at this but i wanted to play our audience a clip from sarah palin to get your thoughts of the r. and r. is stand and fight rally let's check it out. if i weren't sure are rich. they would know that why. is how we baptized here. i mean what's the most amazing is that after making his comments her own evangelical base was so upset for be smirking that sacred right about the hell were her motivations or should i even be asking that about someone like sarah palin crazy is an industry understand these sarah palin makes a lot of money absolutely going after the small fringe of crazy just like rush does and does all of them become millionaires by playing that crazy card and they've got

it down to real science she know she can do certain things and get away with the baptism thing that will be forgotten the more they'll still buy or blew her books they'll still show up for speeches because crazy is a big industry in america right now you're absolutely right and only her only in america could you see someone like that even being considered a legitimate politician getting to the point where she actually put the vice president of states on believable like on a more serious now you've been covering a lot on your show rising c.e.o. pay this is very disturbing for the first time in history the ten highest paid at u.s.c. has to come more than a hundred million dollars in compensation any quality is the highest in america a growing faster america than any other country how do we get to this point do you talk on your show a good bit about the notion of colonialism that is what what's happened united states is we've is we've become one of those closing all nations we used to go overseas and we would go to africa and south america and we would build colonies in those places extract from those places now what's happening it's happening right

here in the united states we are now that new target and we're so naive about what's happening we don't even recognize that these. corporations are coming like locusts here and they want to pay their people big money they want to pay them more than they make in europe and asia so to become a colonial nation you have to pay the people that are making that happen and that's what's happening to we want to think we're above all that we want to think that something we did to somebody else but now if you can imagine a just like locusts moving around the planet right now right now the corporate locusts are right here and they they're calling the shots right where can they get the best tax havens where can exploit workers the best and here in america it's a pretty good deal for corporate c.e.o.'s speaking of ridiculous salaries as an attorney you said something very important. and i want to repeat that for our audience seventy percent of kids coming out of law school want to represent corporations and get paid an exorbitant amount of money to do so they're willing to sell their souls of the highest bidder how do we convince those people in law

supposed to abide by their conscience like you did it's become a need to know profession they used to be when you were coming through the humanities you're coming through the wall whatever the course whether it's political science you had to think about things like important ideas i remember the person that convinced me most to go to law school was probably one of the best trial lawyers in america probably since clarence darrow and i met him in his house i said mr nichols what do you think distinguished you is a great lawyer he had books behind him steinbeck conrad kafka you name it all the great works were right there he says you know what there are no great ideas there these are my ideas my ideas are not the great ideas they're all in those books and i've borrowed them and what he also said is that made me into the person that that shaped me when i read steinbeck's grapes of wrath that shaped who i am and so i don't think you have with a need to know kind of education you simply don't get that right now how do you

feel about g.w. now introducing lobbying as a major where all the young karl roves in d.c. can just streamline their careers and go straight to the lobby well that's exactly what's hap. to get there abbie you have to have the same kind of education that you had or that i had you have to have parents that paid attention to you and said listen these ideas are important this is what you ought to be thinking about but when you're taken f. cats you're taken as a teaser taken l.s.a.t. and all have all you have to know is need to know information you don't have to think about big ideas you don't have to wonder why on the hill john steinbeck wrote like he did that the people are oppressed and we should do something about it and unfortunately in law school you know that's just not out there the number of trial lawyers that really pay attention to this is dwindling so important thank you so much my comment on turning a ring of fire amazing to have you on really appreciate it thank you ed. coming up you guys i have an exclusive interview with two guys who are crashing meetings with top lobbyist and contractors and getting away with it stick around.

to look. at the washington well it's a misleading trees being stressed out in the latest numbers in the media to hand it off or see the government issues actually back to you and doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant piece on a seventy six year old american farmer in the studio how much fallout do you think this is going to the create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering the great america is the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor

nation in the history of breaking the set is mostly about alternatives to the status quo but one might give real alternatives to the points in the works where the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real cause of the problem. the. new magine of someone from the department of energy made an announcement by the year twenty thirty the u.s. would be one hundred percent dependent on renewable energy and not only that the partner with native american nations to supply the source says oh believe it or not this actually happened but it sounds too good to be true that's probably because it is saying this is just the latest elaborate prank orchestrated by the activist

group the yes ma'am. on the house of the department of energy i'm very excited to announce today a great new plan it's beginning a process that will do nothing less than convert the united states energy grid into one that's powered entirely by renewable sources by twenty thirty america will produce one hundred percent of our energy from renewables establishing us once again as a beacon of innovation and progress and as a global leader in confronting the supreme challenge of climate change. yes at a meeting of the homeland security congress dozens of military contractors and lobbyists were hoodwinked into believing a fictitious new government plan called the american renewable clean energy network benedict waterman the man you just saw speaking was actually andy bichel bomb of the yes men and his talk was followed up by another impassioned speech from someone calling themselves ban a slow worse of the bureau of indian affairs who is actually gets crazy boy and

indigenous tar sands activists following these talks crazy way past a native a headband led the attendees of the conference into a celebratory circle dance but if the dance was a whole areas enough the contractors then lined up to gush about how excited they were about the conversion into renewables. of the structure also part of northrop grumman were a large business but a very interesting sports now it's fantastic so it's a very you know this is stand a really good very emotional. yes that was a contractor from northrop grumman expressing extreme enthusiasm for the project but this type of stunt fits in the common tactics the yes men used to draw attention to political issues and social and justices they operate under the mission statement that lies and expose truth the men have done everything from personate how will burn to the world trade organization and i'm very happy to have

mike but not of the yes man and gets crazy boy joins me now from new york amazing to have you both on. thank you very much to be on so mike i want to start by asking you what the hell was this meeting all about and were you surprised that someone from northrop grumman supported your plan for renewable energy. well this meeting is like many that bring together government and defense contractors to try to create corporate welfare to support the defense industry it's crazy it's a place where defense contractors simply try to get money and the idea is that this is somehow involved in our security you know homeland security is the topic but in reality it's anything but concern with our security because if we were actually concerned about security we'd be dealing with things like climate change and dealing with the problem proactively not doing what they're doing which is simply trying to peddle weapons right yeah i mean that's not a surprise i guess to see some of northrop grumman acting so excited about weapons

you're talking about renewables we're you know surprisingly enough most people are not maeglin maniacally insane. people who work for northrop grumman and if they're given the opportunity to do what they actually believe in their hearts is the right thing they go with it it's just a few oil industry lobbyists that actually think that it's a good idea i mean it's not even the lobbyist it's the oil industry that's pushing our governments to prevent us from doing what we need to do to deal with this crisis and that is a really big crime. without giving away any of your personal tactics get and personated some of the department of energy you claim to be from the bureau of indian affairs how do you convince people that you're actually govern officials. it's not too hard i mean there's this weird romanticized view that america has on native people so you throw a hat on or a feather and next thing you know you're spending like ten thousand dollars in arizona for some shaman to teach out to be

a native so wasn't it too hard to fool some people the believing i was part of the . oh my gosh it's amazing mike why did you choose to draw attention to renewable energy with this done and how attainable what the plan you proposed actually. well the plan that was proposed is actually based on real plans and there are there is an article in scientific american very recently that outlined converting to renewables and thirteen years there are other plans that are out there many other plans and actually twenty thirty is not that ambitious a number there are entire countries right now that are on target to convert by two thousand and twenty and of course even some very large industrialized countries are so on target for twenty thirty so it wouldn't be that crazy for the united states to say we've done really big things before we could do something this big now. gets considering the fact that indigenous communities have been virtually ignored by

pretty much every government in the treaties have been violated for years what was your reaction to people actually believing that this partnership was real i mean how out of touch are these people. i don't know if it's really out of touch but i mean if you give people if you give if you have people to dream now what can come from that if they have actually behind it what could you do if you give the incentive to people that there is a better way and we all know that we're barreling down this this road of a loss of species climate change you know big catastrophic events the weather patterns are having right here no one can say for sure if they're going to be new america's pastime or if they're just going to something that's just quickly passing but what was important for us was just to help them realize the stream they have the ambition they really actually want a beautiful healthy change for all of us. yeah you're absolutely right it's important humanize these people and realize that not no one's. really bad i mean if the political establishment basically said we do want to do this i'm sure everyone would jump onboard and say great let's save the planet mike i want to go back and

talk about some of the other things the yes and has done let's take a look at it and posing as a spokesperson for dow chemicals on the b.b.c. on the anniversary of the bhopal chemical disaster. twenty years since the disaster and today i'm very very happy to announce that for the first time doe is accepting full responsibility for the bhopal catastrophe we have a twelve billion dollars plan to finally at long last fully compensate the victims including the one hundred twenty thousand who may need medical care for their entire lives and you know that would have been a howard beal moment if only it were true and it was at the time what prompted the yesmen to take on down specifically. well down had created the largest industrial accident in history actually it was union carbide but union carbide acquired and when they acquired dow many people argued that they acquired their liabilities as

well as their assets but down claimed that in india they didn't get any of their liabilities that the liabilities had been settled by union carbide despite the fact that there were hundreds of thousands of people who had never gotten out of quick compensation and the bhopal plant site the site of the largest industrial accident in history had never been cleaned up it hadn't been remediated and now there was a second wave another generation of children that were getting sick because of the water contamination on that site and so we did it because we were asked actually by activists there and greenpeace to do something about that to try to get people to realise that it was down there was now responsible for that legacy. gets you know the yes man constantly targets groups that favor profit of people pranking keep the peace negotiations the world trade organization meeting why go after these groups.

they have some plan they have some have them playing all this you know there's some influence. and also allows us opportunities like this to be sitting here to talk to you about massive devastation that's happening in northern alberta with the tar sands extraction and development induction development up there you know it loves us to say something like that with so ins who are camping out right now they're living right now in the heart of the enbridge pipeline proposed and bridge pipeline that are adamant about not moving that is their homeland only to defend it allows us to do the voice of these things you know to do an action like that or a stunt and to grab some of that attention and actually redirect it in a really positive way is super important i believe that's why you know we do things absolutely mike why does the t.p. need to help with the. yes meant to be exposed. well the t p p is one of these crazy bureaucratic proposals that in the end is designed to privilege profit over everything else we've got our start fighting the world trade organization policies

that these new neo liberal policies that were being applied religiously across the board no matter what impact they had on people on the ground and we started out attacking that and we continue to attack trade policies these bureaucratic things that are very hard to understand for a lay person but that if you look at them are very dangerous and damaging to people and the environment absolutely six hundred plus corporate advisors negotiations constantly in secret i'm really happy you guys did that stunt shedding some light on that i wanted to take a look at probably the most absurd start in the u.s. and i don't think we have time to actually play this clip but the how of burton survival ball i just heard that we do have time let's check it out. this is the answer this is the how the burton survival ball. it's three easy steps for deployment suiting up inflating and of course launching launching out of

a building and we have an artist's rendition of what it might be like in houston when you launch our survival waltz. i want to double question here what was the message you're trying to convey with the creation of the ball and i think people are so frustrated what advice do you give to people who want to disrupt the corporatocracy we have about a minute left. well the survivable is about the absurdity of the system that we're living in and of the idea that we can survive climate change by simply fortifying our borders or creating these little bubbles that we can live in we cannot escape this thing we're in it together and we have to deal with it together and people like gets who come from ground zero the tar sands his whole land and culture are being destroyed by this industry and they know when they understand and it hasn't hit us as strong at but it will soon and that's what this is all about it's all about talking about that and approaching it in a way that's funny and engage absolutely you guys thank you so much my upon her.

party gets crazy boy from the yes man amazing to have you guys on. that's our show you guys have a great week and join me again next week and i break this all over again. well with the. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. i think. mind. and. mine and i'm actually. right. here just to.

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around the perimeter of the square. people are on guard here. keeping watch over our city. who also does not do they keep watch around the clock there are no weapons or troops here you can see for yourself the barricades made of tires. and bob wire going to this particular section has been reinforced to repel potential attacks which may come at any time of the day or night. other. than under budget.

deal and what is our government excuse me the skiff going to done to unite ukraine when you like you did mobilize their army excuse me but against who are they mobilizing who are the aggressors where are they made some pies later clean table cloth and i'm waiting for this aggressor to come and capture me what is it going to come and then they disconnected our televisions after that they call this the diaspora how can it be a day ask for their eight million of us here who just speak a different language twenty million not eight no i'm talking about the number of russian speaking people here how long are they going to believe yes. i can sing a song in ukrainian i can recite your poem in ukrainian because there quickly what do you think about how ukrainians and russians get on together christiane. we're all slavs we have to live in peace we're brothers when we shouldn't fight each other though we are one people we're all brothers my home and behind me russia

reside a moment i have an aunt in russia and friends never ceased. we can't go to war against each other i don't even like to use the word this is the twenty first century how can two slavic peoples go to war and what are we supposed to make of today's order from the so-called kiev government. the so-called kill government gave the order to kill their own people in slovyansk how is it even possible i don't know what to say. they don't care about the geneva accords fascists they're o.s.c. monitors wondering about all over the place but what's going on i can figure it out none of us can know who is in charge of this madhouse. we were just getting on with our lives and not bothering anyone. if they want to join the e.u. that's fine with those we're not against the west but we've always been friends

with russia the russians don't interfere in our business and we've always got on well we've no reason to quarrel either with russia all the west so why send in troops it's just ugly. story this is our home we've got a culture we're the language of our own what right do other people have to come here and start laying down the law you know both my grandfathers were killed in world war two. never seeing glory to ukraine glory to bender i hope they get the message that all those responsible will have to be tried at the hague one of those know why send troops here they should be arresting all those terrorists in kiev and stood up for all of the presidential candidates the military

junta the nazis who gave orders to kill their own people just because their culture and their views are different i'm just standing up for myself i'm not a politician. or a kalashnikov here's the kalashnikov the latest model that's automatic. nobody other weapons. head of the right sector is assembling a hit squad called don bus once it's assembled he's going to target us money. we're just unarmed people who are simply trying to protect our legitimate interests . he's made an announcement promising to pay ordinary soldiers one thousand dollars and officers five thousand dollars.

frivolously over. for. you to keep what they're about of course is going. to. really keep it all if you like but you know you want to. go through that period. with the opposition and. because there's an injustice going on in the country it was a coup and illegal takeover of power was used on the naturally the new authorities setting up their own rules but how can anyone who disagrees is removed by any means possible it's either put in prisons or killed. ah. these are the rules. but they're to put by the

somebody. if come let. us not let me not. come not to let somebody. else. i could not come up. to speed up. to see them because you know what. it meant to myself even if i knew what. i would bet if you were to come upon. she must. do nothing. but it's a pretty sure my well you know i mean you do i know you know i. thought

i was surprised when. i was i i was the marginal income assume you see your mother summersault answered most of her. own will oh that's right i'm going to. you know somebody my name is now tell us a phone number and i live in the city of cross and on their relation began the miners kept working there we're working until a few days ago yesterday on april twenty second at nine pm a demonstration began here in the young guard square. just today's april twenty third and it still hasn't broken up. because it was also please tell us how do you feel about their rights such as actions in ukraine. you could call it nazis are you afraid of

a mouse is of course not why would we be afraid not all the miners around donbass have risen up yet if the whole of don't bust rises up together it'll be game over for everyone do you know that a soldier was killed a mother what a day for if using to fight. this is just the beginning yeah right this is just the beginning but how long will it last for well i have no idea we're doing our best standing here trying to put an end to it. if i can say one thing only if the miners rise up it will be worse than my done a million times worse than the people in the gun squee general russians in their hearts our people are russian at heart they go over here and chant russia i'm sorry but they wouldn't be able to use money to bring ten twenty or even thirty thousand people together to show russia i wouldn't be coming here daily to bring us porridge eggs and financial help you see the point of our activity here is to represent the

interests of the people if the people say so then that's how it will be that is we do what the people say and if they say otherwise that means we'll do so as well. yeah. ok. that's what i'm just. at the store that all the talk and talk. a little not much and that it's late and i'm. going to deliver the. puzzle so there's a new

a down so let's look at the senior political but. this will. be a pro-life that's always been that from the get up to seventeen stimulus when you are the point you have the time to be retaught what has puzzled me well what do you think you can leave the on yourself along with for your new movie separte is italy for a little over an amazing over the six love of just a lucky break up if they were there for just. a minute let's go because that is the president right. now is it. a little later than the usual i'm like no this is the view from there was after us with some more hello people then there's about both of you have all of the thought some like your son was the is the lowest we're one up say oh i'm going up like i'm going to look at the bottles on your book when it's in the name of. those little ones the closer to the solaria were

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know what it was about how you with us from the bottom to the bottom one on one you know yes you can find food from us they just want to show the chimps do what you did you could you know i was a cubicle you could you get to some people would you be go yes you did you know i don't know if i'm up with these new let us go do you know we've got a video of the human being you know look what he's doing you know because let me show you when you flip through you look up when you slowly but you know you all go where you did you was those he goes in with those newbies who he quickly closed mentally you who cooks three hundred true a. crew you know you go to the lines you cook was no solution is not. going to yet again show. so who was the film know what to do i mean you know this was because of that but it was given to them yeah i don't hear a little bit about your journey what you want to do but they're doing it and it's a good thing right but yes because you need to come when you know you got that

where you get what you want you to go to the body do it because you love you know cool really will pick up the steep part. she will say are you sure you're. not just you because you. like to think you are doing. your doubt that you don't like her. because you're like him yes. yes. that's a dumb i was like i knew i was the one. that doesn't take you to. think that that really will never come up. to the other still most of the comments that you're looking at i feel like

if you really like you cut loose you know them by senior booed you just would be and you're going to keep something weird if you can just to get through that. simple that right if the only. way you can look at people when they don't stop insulting us when we stop calling the separatists and terrorists we get up each morning and we're called separatists that's how we started greeting each other hello i'm a terrorist hello i'm a separatist. with the quick belief that we're no different from those people well except we don't speak ukrainian that's the only difference between us so why is it they hate their own people so much where does all this bit. said hatred come from ok and what have we done to them to hate us so much if we're really such a pain in the neck so hooked on subsidies why don't they just leave us alone all the want is the right to determine our own future give us a referendum and we'll solve the problems also they're afraid of a referendum afraid of their own people but why the people have the right to vote

will form the land and work in the mines just leave us alone please please just let us be peace loving people. yeah i'm from a death. wish you could ask the people how it's come to this country the reason why i don't want to show my face is because to my mind we live in a democratic country which is no freedom of speech with this there are a loss of kidnappings in ukraine b.g. is not at all uncommon for people whose opinions are different you should be stopped in the streets and beaten. even if you. became a shiite didn't you should you know that you need. to do to. this is. usually.

the feeling that he was only one of. the nightly of the yeah was shooting for you something you feel is alive you didn't mean. if you didn't. actually set up. what you are sure which would have been you can see it just like just the facts it's been actually simply from watching dr parks do you think most people in adesa support or oppose the. undernourished not a lot of work and if i think about eighty percent of the residents are against the euro my done their remaining twenty are probably misled or just don't live here permanently almost all the locals are against them i don't know if they really did the my down to making a covert go and he did it why are they there now then what do they want to really

really personally i'd say they want the plague of nationalism to spread all over ukraine nobody in the southeast all the rest of ukraine needs any of this kind of nationalism going on. to the. to the. law would have been was. we want the europe that the crusaders for for the europe the european nationalists fought for the europe of white people. muslims humiliate the natives now they take away our lands where we will stand for europe the whites in europe. the traditional europe. for the three nation europe. that glory to the nation were and

wouldn't would we would we would what do you think about the situation in the country is it good or bad it's awful first they drove a wedge between us in a russian brothers. yang. as for me i'm neither going to travel to russia nor to anywhere else i want to live in a desert. i want everything to be fine. i want us to be friends with russia the west is not for us you know this union what's happening in our country it's a nightmare. how do you survive prison is my salary is ninety two dollars per month you can get by gas prices are now about to spike by seventy three percent if you if the prices for medicines have already been raised by sixty percent it's terrible really terrible. it's

a question we've been waiting for the geneva agreements we got them and we're very grateful to russia for them because we understand well that the so-called interim government as well as the right. party and some other nazi groups never meant to fulfill the obligations i'm not going to comply i'm simply can't. they have different intentions to cut and kill with the slogan muscovites on trees. you know . never heard the word that it was you know it. was. in the them because it's a specific sometimes i feel like we've all been used. coughs and put us in leg irons instead it's it in our setting as of the southeast if ukraine the same way

the settlers against the cook the police crimea and then russia is that you i wonder who's interested in it and why i wouldn't want to be persecuted any person who is against the developments in ukraine may be accused of separatism and really go to jail that's why i want to stay anonymous for. the ukrainian parliament adopted a law or under which those guilty of acts of separatism and terrorism can be thrown into prison for ten to fifteen years or even for life we know fall into this category i'm not saying that it's you but your european colleagues some european authorities approved it earlier crimean parliament adopted the law they did it so it appears that view. i mean those european bodies agree that terrorists here i am i don't like a terrorist and now i'm facing a life sentence according to the current legislation. and communicate normally i represent the interests of the people you have to understand that not everybody can

or is willing to put their own life at stake in order to save people. oh. thank you thank you. thank you thank you so much it was so simple to shut. up. oh ok.

well i. was. you know nicole. was if. you. want to. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you. my. thanks to our.

little scheme. about talk of only i want to speak on behalf of ukraine each person must speak up and say what he wants what he desires but while the authorities are afraid of the referendum why are they afraid yes they are. your heart is there not because then they must let us say what we have to say and we will we are not separatists we are not radicals i live in hock of i'm sixty one i want to understand where i live what country i live in the russian ukraine belarus need to unite machine like russia down russia isn't here russia supports us morally but not physically americans are supporting they do interface equally. well there are troops there are a lot of documents media material spread and materials proving that us nobody is interested.

let me just click how many people come to the rallies and everybody is there from students to pensioners even veterans coming ukrainian t.v. spreading lies there saying that russians are being brought in is it even possible to bring so many russians look thousands of people come for rallies in eastern ukraine have they brought half of the russian population here they call us extremists we always ask for permission to hold peaceful rallies but they refuse us you know it seems that the heroes of my done i will out to seize buildings to rob banks to kill people but we're not allowed to hold peaceful rallies you can see that we are unarmed we're not wearing masks we have only one demand we want to hold a referendum we want to be heard you can't force twenty million people into europe and nato against their will.

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i think. everybody. should you know the press is the only industry specifically mentioning the constitution. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy shrek. a little. bit like you know i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on and we go beyond identifying. rational debate real discussion critical issues facing camera ready to join the movement and welcome the. law might have been tonio in for tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up on tonight's big picture big pharma is powerful and

corrupt and sinister is big oil and big finance we're going to talk about that so why don't more people know about what's up more on that in just a moment when we come back also progressive populism is having a comeback in the democratic party thanks to people like elizabeth warren so why are the rest of the bill wait democrat types paying attention and being god is the big guys the big guys the well it's pretty much the only word coming out of the mouths of most congressional republicans today why is that and why does darrell isis stand to gain from fanning the conspiracy theory flames tom's going to have more on that on tonight's daily take. you need to know this in the night teen eighty's bear corp produced

a medicine that was supposed to improve the lives of hemophiliacs bear didn't tell those who might feel eggs that their product was in fact. with the entire families of human feel x. died with aids as the virus spread within households when bear was ordered to stop selling their drugs in america they actually dumped their aids laden product in asia and killed asian families no one with bear management was arrested no one went to prison no one who made those psychopathic quality decisions went to prison at all they claimed the protection of their status as a corporation that corporate status gave management the ability to kill people for profit and not go to prison i have one of those civil cases against baron saw first hand that this was a rogue operation not typical of most corporations but but how do you put that rogue in prison what do you do to arrest him. today rogue corporations have the best of all worlds they take advantage of the constitutional protections they were

originally written for a living breathing humans they went that wasn't written for corporations but they argue that the u.s. supreme court mandated one hundred thirty years ago that we have to treat a corporate a corporation exactly like a person and we know that's not true but they argue that the fourteenth amendment was written to protect their corporate person status with equal protection and due process according to them well they're just one of us but when the conduct of that corporate person is so vile when they make decisions to kill people to increase profit we hear the argument that gee whiz it was a corporate wide decision we hear that was no single person to hold anybody accountable so why tell us that many many individual psychopaths were responsible in the criminal conduct they do that because they know that nobody goes to prison the big winners are the corporations that are the most corrupt to make matters

worse we have a supreme court that's packed mostly with lawyers who were employed by america's most powerful corporations before they became judges it's a court full of judges who sit on that court because corporate powerhouses helped put them there not because they have exceptional talent their decisions are predictable ninety percent of the time corporations win every time this court finishes writing its opinions about treating corporations more like people the product they deliver looks like one of those warm and fuzzy hallmark greeting cards for god's sakes that rallies our emotions with feel good pictures of puppies and kittens by the by way of words they try to paint a norman rockwell kind of picture that's going to make us invite this saint like corporate person to dinner with our families well a word of advise if you do invite that corporate person over for dinner do. don't allow him around your small children and certainly count the silver settings before

this corporate person leaves your house most importantly recognize that the mother teresa character that the us supreme court tries to sell you on is really a character closer to freddie krueger as this court expands the constitutional protections of this poor misunderstood end of the known as the corporate person they should also spend some time expanding avenues that allow us to do what we would do to any psychopath who harms our family we put that psychopath in handcuffs we throw that psychopath either in an institution or in prison joining me now for more on this is david haynes managing attorney for the cochran firm in d.c. and baltimore they did i got it i got to tell you what's happening right now is these new mega you see pharmaceutical companies out buying these mega deals what's that all about the big mega drug company it's just the age of the mega merger is what we're looking at and why is this being done it's for pure increase corporate

profitability and so that these companies can avoid taxes it's all about taxes saving money saving the bottom line shilling the american taxpayer while they charge for overpriced drugs well think about what here's what so a glee about that first of all they don't want to pay taxes in the united states their star starting these mergers overseas to avoid paying taxes but you can bet they sure want the medicare dollars they sure want the medicaid dollars they'll take that money but they don't want to pay anything back into the system and the other thing that really is interesting to me almost three billion dollars spent on law and by the drug industry just in the last few years three billion dollars what does three billion dollars buy for a drug company like merck or pfizer or lhuillier are johnson and johnson you can guarantee that they're not spending three billion dollars just for the health of just just in case it's by access. it's buying special privileges as you said with

medicare it's an insurer in that the two thousand and six loophole that we can't that there's no negotiation the medicare can do for these drug companies stays inflated well let's talk about that just about why people don't understand can you imagine we have a setting now where the drug use the government medicare can't say to the drug company i want to negotiate your prize because you're you have a markup of five thousand percent now that is a startling number but that's a real number isn't there some companies with a five thousand percent markup on their little pill but we're saying to them ology which is you know you're not you're prohibited from the goshen other groups can negotiate but medicare cannot federal government cannot and so you see what the lobby is you think big oil the defense industry they're all spending lobbying dollars they must know who's spending more the pharmaceutical industry they're the ones who have the armies of lobbyists that are out here in the city in the state houses wining and dining in our legislators for special protection for the pharmaceutical industries which are spending money in the billions of dollars

because they know it's money that's going to be returned to them ten twenty one hundred fold so it what it does david it does it allows them i take it then to buy for to buy price fixing other words yes your special industry you can engage in and i trust you can engage in prize fixing that's fine what it what other things that it does is it's a get out of jail free card when they spend three billion dollars lobbying it it's across the board to talk about price fixing antitrust pay for delay american consumers need to know what that is when when a drug is prepared to come off of patent and generics can enter the space so the drug prices will come down the if the branded company just buys them off one multimillion dollar deals and so that the patient loses and ok let me get let me get this right let me get this right you have a five's or a company or a merck company making a good zillion dollars off of medicare off of taxpayers because illions it out. i mean the numbers are staggering so this company says we have this drug on the

market and if it moves over to the generic we're going to lose money so they they work out a deal with the generic don't they if they are paid under the table what will happen is a generic will begin to develop a drug it take it takes years and then the it will be a patent there's sometimes patent litigation but then lo and behold there's a settlement between fives are in the generic and they pay the millions of dollars sometimes fifty million dollars a year for multi-year deals to keep the generic out of the space anyone can understand that that's anti-competitive anti-trust and the loser of course is the consumer the patient and their medication is being denied to people who need it the most i'm working on two cases right now you're familiar with them where we have actually seen the industry phony up clinical data absolutely make it up sinnott to the f.d.a. the dysfunctional f.d.a. doesn't have enough sense to even ask the right questions what ends up happening is the drug makes it through and ends up killing people tonight we're going to be

talking about transvaginal mess one good example destroying the lives of women everywhere because the f.d.a. was dysfunctional but also because the company johnson and johnson were going to talk about phoneys up a bunch of information about the safety of that how do you ever stop it really how do you ever do anything about the power of an industry that can spend three billion dollars lobbying our government and we need to have appropriate safeguards and we need to stop giving the pharmaceutical industry a free pass i mean we need to have f.d.a. you said it is is powerless they can't police all of this a lot of it will result to firms such as ours which are having to prosecute these cases simply but it shouldn't get that far that patients are injured and killed and so obviously we need real reform on the capitol hill on capitol hill but will that ever happen when these lobbyist have them in their back pocket well what we see this is the new eric holder thing this is the new you know the the new justice department is. we don't really throw people in jail when they kill other people as

long as they have a piece suit on and as long as they have an armani tie in a rolex watch we don't throw him in jail what do we do to him well we just give him a fine and you know it's just a cost for bit of business for these companies at this point i mean it's an elite club it's a membership card that if you're willing to pay a billion dollar fine you can do whatever you want and it's a get out of free jail card is exactly what it is until the government wakes up and we have some real prosecutions and set of these deferred prosecution agreements which are purely civil in nature then we're not going to see any real reform real quickly david you know this this president came into office i'm going to reform all this i want to get the f.d.a. under control on the give wall street under control what his see done name names anything you can tell me that this president has done to to make the drug industry do what the rest of the of corporations should be doing and that's to play fair what is he don't know reforms come to mind i mean hatch waxman teeth listen all and a lot of ways we don't see any reform coming out of the white house instead what we

really see is a revolving door among the administration out to big law right down the street where they're then working for these companies after a couple year stint over the administration or in the justice department and so these prosecutions need to get real when we have this criminal conduct and people are dying as a result individuals need to be held responsible well that's the nature of the nature of the business and you know the only way to change it is to keep going after him in courtrooms all over this country that's what you do david james thank you for joining me thank you. coming up progressive populism is having a major moment outside the beltway so why aren't democrats in washington paying attention the answer right after the break i'll be back. to.

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one of the people. this was in the washington well as submissive. is being suggested in the list of numbers among the many candidates for the prophesy of current issues actually back to a new doesn't do too much for ad revenue my own tech agriculture giant teeth on a seventy six year old american farmer based in india fallout do you think this is going to create for the cia do you think this is what's triggering a race america's the largest economy in the world it's also the largest debtor nation in the history of the world breaking the set is mostly of alternatives to the status quo but one might give real alternatives points to looking for the american dream the next they were just trying to survive it's time for americans and lawmakers are forced to wake up and start talking about the real causes of.

welcome back to the show nate silver is calling for the republicans to capture the senate and twenty fourteen election mates usually right it's a little scary he's making that prediction based on a number of factors including the increasing unpopularity of this president a lack of democrats showing up at the polls but more importantly democrats are at risk of losing the senate in november because they failed to to deliver a clear convincing message to the american public democrats are so focused on what's going on inside the beltway that they've lost sight of what's going on across america and unless they realize that pretty quickly republicans are going to have even more power in washington on election day joining me now for more on this

is robert borsak co-founder and co-director of campaign for america's future robert what is it that the democrats are missing again about the notion of populism well we're in a populist moment you know the economy is lousy people are looking for real help they're looking for who's going to be a champion or not and i think particularly the incumbent democrats in the senate who are running in what are called conservative states are choosing to run campaigns which that where they hunker down and run as incumbents run on local issues and are failing to draw a clear distinctions about what they'll fight for as opposed to their republican vote if we if we know this we know the numbers we know that if you if the broad spectrum of numbers says that the american public may not know what populism is but they don't care about things like social security they care about medicare they care about health care they care about safety nets and if you said ok well all of

that equals populism the majority of americans really do have a center of populism but what's the competing interest there why is it that the democrats are still flailing around out there without a message afraid to embrace the message of populism but the first message is going to be about jobs and democrats are tongue tied about jobs because they don't want to spend money. because to spend money you're going to have to raise taxes you have to raise taxes on the rich and the corporations and often they're out there if you're in a senate race you're raising millions of dollars for your election that starts to make you a little tongue tied so that's the first big gap you've got to have a growth agenda and to have a growth agenda you have to take on our trade policy you have to take on our invest our lack of investment in basic infrastructure and putting people back to work and you have to insist that the rich and the corporations pay their fair share in taxes those things are popular but they aren't popular with donors and they aren't popular with and they're they make people nervous if you're

a company senator i think you uncover the keywords the populism is not is not popular with donors when the donors are big oil big pharma big military industrial call slice contracts big wall street those people don't want to hear a candidate democrat or republican talking in any terms that sound like populism and so because of that isn't that kind of self-defeating for the democrats when they they're moved by that and they're ignoring the fact that if you do talk the right way then the american public might respond in vote for it to be fair they have an argument about how they'll win and sometimes it works these republican candidates are on the extreme right they tend to be anti choice they're anti immigration reform they tend to be from the white party that is exclusionary of all people of color and so the notion that you run liberal social issues you run on minimum wage which people which is very popular you run on pay equity and you

have the beginnings of an appeal to people that you hope can bring out your base the problem is in an off year election. this electorate will be whiter older and more male than the presidential year electorate unless something is done to dramatically change who's interested in the election and they're more excited too or they were they're more excited about showing up is not a big factor in any election that there's kind of that value they say well who's who's interested in really showing up in every midterm it's never the democrats it's always the republicans and we're going to see that again well we'll see you know the senior vote is i think more up for grabs and people think because republicans have been attacking social security medicare. seniors voted overwhelmingly republican in the last by election by election and they come out and vote in large numbers if that vote is closer and will be had you know these races are close it will be an interesting race i don't to joe spot is nate silver right i

think you know the percentages now would lean to i think the republicans have a very good shot at taking the senate but these races are very close and there are some candidates that are getting attention shine a bellows in maine rick whalen in south dakota who are running populist kim yeah and it's working and we'll see we'll see how well let me ask you this we saw we saw . hillary clinton i could've sworn six months ago she was talking as a populist i was listening to and i almost had to take out my telephone to get some type of google interpreter to understand what in the hell she was actually saying but it almost sounded like she was trying to move towards populism but maybe it's because of the elizabeth warren factor what your take on that i hope that's true you know hillary has the advantage for four years she's been in the state department so she hasn't really had to express views on domestic politics and the domestic economy and everyone expected her to defend the president so as she defines her own candidacy she can define it as very different than her president

her husband's presidency because the times are different and then obama's presidency and i think. she's a stronger candidate if she does that so i hope she moves towards the war in position there's no question that what's fascinating about this moment is poll after poll after poll shows that the majority of americans are support a whole range of populist positions from taxing the rich and corporations to changing our trade policy to curbing wall street to invest in the country etc and that. there is in the democratic party some of the most attractive leadership in the senate elizabeth warren sherrod brown jeff merkley some of the most attractive leadership in the house the the leaders of the rising american electorate the obama majority the base of the party with organized labor etc all supportive of a more populist position than we get out of this administration and certainly out

of the well that's what we're looking at we abandon truthfully abandon populist not just with citizens united i mean citizens united was the icing on the cake but the but the democratic party is very clear there are no longer anything that looks close to a puppy you got some exceptions but they're not even you wouldn't generally call him a populist party you used to but not anymore and bill clinton changed all that when he came to said you know we can and need wall street and whatever wall street wants is the politics of what we're going to become we saw. bomb a ticket even worse than than bill clinton i mean he raised it to a whole new level to where we don't even prosecute wall street because we're afraid they're going to get mad at us and we're afraid that they're going to be we're going to be regarded as is populist how does that change with hillary clinton saying well i think it could change because the party has changed the party is changing that is i mean that hillary's totally tied in with wall street and with the same donors and such or so they're distinct limits here but there's no question that public opinion has changed because this economy is not working for them and

the war and message that the rules are rigged and these people and it doesn't work for you not because of your fault because the rules are. rigged to benefit the few that's a powerful message and someone will represent that message in the next election leveler is really hard to get there robert borsak you are the guy to go to when we want to know what's happening with politics thank you for joining me the. the you know over the next two election cycles progressive democrats have the chance to reach to retake the party from wall street types and believe it or not one of the things that could that could help them do that is rand paul's presidential run seriously believe it or not that's one of the things is a matter that here's tom's take on that very issue. president rand paul may not sound too catchy but rand paul being the republican nominee for president in two thousand and sixteen could actually be a good thing maybe even the best thing that happens to democrats or that has

happened to democrats in our nation for a long time let me explain political commentator peter biner has a new piece in the atlantic where he writes that now that chris christie has been knocked out of the number one spot the republican party rand paul is the likely front runner for the republican presidential nod in twenty sixteen writes that if chris christie was ever the front runner for the twenty sixteen republican presidential nomination he isn't anymore so if christie is no longer the candidate to beat the twenty sixteen republican race who is believe it or not it's rand paul he goes on to write that the twenty six thousand election could turn out to be like the election in one thousand nine hundred sixty four when the dark horse weird for in conservative candidate barry goldwater became that party's the republican party's nominee as minor puts it it's just possible that two thousand and sixteen could be another nine hundred sixty four nine hundred eighty years when the republican establishment proved weak and pliable enough to allow a candidate previously considered extreme to come in from the coal miners is the

reason for this in addition to the fact that rand paul has good polling numbers is that there is an existing infrastructure of paul support within the republican party thanks to ron paul taking big chunks of support from republicans and twenty twelve. those people who are ron paul followers in two thousand and twelve are now rand paul supporters and they're well embedded into the republican party so basically rand paul has a very good shot at becoming the republican nominee for president in two thousand and sixteen. so why is it. but that might be a good thing for democrats and maybe even for our nation the answer is really simple a rand paul republican candidate could force democrats to move way to the left. let me explain rand paul hates things like social security and medicare is very right he hates long term unemployment benefits or oppose the minimum wage all together very right he's even said that companies should be able to discriminate

based on race or gender or sexual orientation very right economically thinks everything should be privatized the only exceptions being the military police forces and our judiciary and he's totally opposed to a woman's right to choose to have an abortion very right but most people don't know that those are rand paul's positions what people do know is that paul is strongly opposed to the n.s.a. snooping and spying on american citizens they do know that he's incredibly skeptical of our nation's drone program and that he's in favor of gay marriage and people also know that paul is in favor of decriminalizing all drugs not just pot and earlier rand paul's position on just these issues he appears to be way to the left of much of the official democratic party so if the democratic nominee wanted to have any chance of defeating rand paul whether that nominee was hillary clinton a lot of the warner andrew cuomo they'd have to move away to the left of the current mainstream democratic party's positions. if things like this were to play

out like that and if paul did become the republican nominee in two thousand and sixteen it's likely that the two thousand and sixteen election could be the election where things start getting really populist you imagine a democrat said to become more progressive to take on a libertarian republican candidate creating protectionist trade policies decriminalizing pot could become official parts of the democratic party platform just to push back on rand paul suddenly pushing for things like health care for all and legalizing marijuana would seem mainstream. make no mistake about it rand paul being on the republican ticket for president two thousand and sixteen could be the powerful force needed to move the entire democratic party from presidential nominees to state assembly nominees to the left what a remarkable outcome that. coming up republicans have made suppressing the vote one of their top priorities but could a recent court decision in wisconsin stop them in their tracks more on that court

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in the best of the rest of the news voter id laws are a sham you don't take my word for it to a federal judge lynn adelman zwerg on tuesday he struck down wisconsin's voter id suppression law in his ruling and absolutely tore up the notion of suppressing votes adelman argued that the law blatantly discriminated against minorities violating section two of the voting rights act and he also pointed out that the new voter restrictions were totally unnecessary that's because as he wrote cases of potential voter fraud occurs so infrequently that no rational person should be

concerned about it yet here you hear that scott walker there's no such thing is voter fraud but make no mistake about it joe judge adams ruling on wisconsin in the voter id law is a big deal such a big big deal in fact that it could be the turning point in the fight for voting rights joining me now on this is from grace brad friedman from los angeles founder and editor of the published publisher of the brad blog and just all round smart guy brad thank you for joining me did i get it right is the wisconsin this is an important. oh yeah the wisconsin decision is really important and make no mistake mistakes scott walker hears it very well he had been previously planning to call a special session to reconvene his state legislature to tweak this this law if it went down at the state supreme court because there's a separate state case against this law as well he said this was the only law that

was pressing enough that he needed to call back the the legislature well now he has said no we can't do it because the federal judge blitter rated this law so thoroughly that there is no tweak that we can do between now and november when by the way scott walker happens to be on the on the ballot this november so yeah you got a right and this is big not just for wisconsin but for the entire nation because this is the first federal case to strike down photo i.d. restriction laws like this under section two of the voting rights they all have as part of the read let me ask you about that people watching this program they want to know in their backyard this is going on do they have a new tool and what do they do with that new tool how do they get involved in saying dammit you know i don't want this happening in my backyard i know i can do something i can look at the decision that just came out of wisconsin we can take that blueprint we can take that outline and use it other places explain the

distinction between this section two and the section five that was thrown out by the by this dysfunctional supreme court majority well the good news in this case is that the department of justice is already using exactly what worked in wisconsin section two of the voting rights act that's the section that's still standing since the supreme court gutted the heart of the voting rights act last year section five is what they used to use in section five there were certain jurisdictions with a history of discrimination at the polling place that had to essentially prove to the d.-o. . jay before the law went into effect that it would that these types of laws would not discriminate and these laws went down time and again because they are discriminatory so when the supreme court gutted section five states like texas north carolina they rejoiced and they put into place laws that had already been turned down under section five thinking that section two it'll be harder to strike

down these laws section two applies to all fifty states and it bars discrimination in all fifty miles here let me ask you this is yeah but wait until after it's in place right as i look at this what i find most interesting in this blueprint this guideline that this judge is laid out is it's elegant it's simple in every regard he says look first of all how many voters might lose their right to vote simple question we can do the math on that more importantly says if we take the last election and we apply those numbers would it have made a difference that's a substantial difference that we ought to pay attention to that was another thing he paid attention to and then and then the third thing you paid attention do is look what has the state shown he's shown no evidence of fraud those three point seemed seem critical for anybody listening to this program who wants to do something about it in your state what would you add to that well yeah you're right he found that three hundred thousand voters in wisconsin legal voters registered

voters do not have the type of idea that would be required to vote under this law and that back in two thousand and ten the governor's election in wisconsin the u.s. senate election was decided by fewer votes than that that's the case everywhere and proponents of these discriminatory laws have not been able to show that there's any actual fraud that would be deterred by this type of law there is some voter fraud out there but it's by and large this by absentee ballot these types of laws only apply to the polling place he made justice roberts look like a monkey didn't he i mean. i don't well i don't want to overstate it but he really did he just as justice roberts spring court judge saying that hey you know there is no more problem with racism in voting even address that in his opinion i mean i thought that was really bold and you well it was he hit right at roberts the situation from the voting rights act last year and what we find in case after case

in judge adelman underscored this up in wisconsin is that in case after case it's minorities it's the poor who are discriminated against by these laws because it is minorities and poor who don't have the type this specific type of photo id that would be needed to vote under these laws they are more disenfranchised than anyone else including the lead plaintiff by the way eighty four year old woman ruth l. frank who who was born at home so she never had a birth certificate it would have cost her twenty bucks to have a birth certificate made but she found out on the registry of deeds they misspelled her name so she would have had to pay two hundred bucks to correct that you know so that she could then pay twenty bucks for the birth thread so that then she will get her free thank you for being out there looking out for voter rights in this country thank you brad everybody ought to know brad friedman's blog and stay in touch with it all the time to know what's happening across this country thanks pat appreciate it at the same time as republicans push forward with their voter suppression

efforts private corporations are trying to do some election rigging of their own them. when the supreme court issued its citizens united decision back in two thousand and ten many in the media predicted it would end i'm sure in a new era of corporate electioneering and they were right of course but they only had half the story you won't hear anywhere in the mainstream media but over the past decade or so our elected representatives of slowly but surely had the power to decide our elections over to a very small handful of giant and mostly republican connected corporations and they've done so by giving them the right to collect and count our votes at one time counting the votes was something done by people like you and me it was done by volunteers political party representatives government workers my mom used to do this there was anything sketchy with the results you could compare those results with exit polls conducted by one of many reputable polling companies the system

worked for years and for good reason to accept polls were and still are the gold standard to detect fraud but something changed and only in the united states in the early two thousand. private corporations armed with fancy new electronic voting machines every day people begin counting the vote they were helped out by president george w. bush who in two thousand and give that money to giant electronic voting machine corporations supporters of electronic voting machines say they're safer and better than manolo county that's just a flat out lie anyone who wants to easily can use a voting machine to swing an election if you don't believe me check out this two thousand and four video of howard dean playing around with a d. ball voting machine while he was guest hosting tina brown's the n.b.c. t.v. show. this is the official program that the county supervisor sees as we can see here howard dean has a thousand votes and lex luthor has five hundred so you're beating lex luthor and

you see we have eight hundred votes here for you and four hundred for lex luthor let's just look at those we'll make that four hundred. and we'll give one hundred votes to tiger let's just see what happened here we go back into gems the legitimate way and as you can see now howard dean only has five hundred votes there has nine hundred in tiger woods has one hundred votes we just edited them lection it took us ninety seconds. a really is that easy in fact according to black box voting dot org a nonprofit group dedicated to investigating problems of electronic voting and rigging intellectual trying voting machine is so easy a chimpanzee can do it and if you think this is all just a bunch of hand-wringing in the think again because ever since the early two thousand when the use of electronic voting machines really took off things in america really got we're back in two thousand and two for example polling showed popular georgia democrat senator max quinlan with a solid five point lead over his republican challenger saxby chambliss less than

a week before election day but when the votes were counted using electronic voting machines made and operated by the old corporation chambliss emerged victorious by about two points so what happened well it might have had something to do with the software patch the deep old installed in machines in democratic leaning counties months before voters went to the polls but will never actually know what happened as robert f. kennedy jr noted in his piece on the two thousand and two georgia senate race it is impossible to know whether the machines were rigged to alter the election in georgia evil's machines provided no paper trail making a recount impossible that's the whole problem with electronic voting machines we'll never really know companies like bold don't have to reveal their software secrets because they're protected under copyright law and again unlike paper ballots you can't really see when someone messes with your touchscreen vote it happens outside

of plain sight ultimately however the biggest problem with electronic voting machines is that they violate the core principles of our democratic republic. whether or not election rigging exists my bets are that it does but let's it does it still the whole idea of privatizing our vote is a crime against our form of government think of it this way the whole purpose of government is to administer the commons so things like parks and healthcare roads and you know the stuff we need to survive and in the democratic republic voting is the most important part of the commons. it's the most important because it's the glue that holds everything else together bodine is how we the people hold the managers of our commons that is our elected leaders how we hold them accountable for their actions. and in the one thing we used to hold everyone else accountable

but time is paying called the heart of democracy the vote handing that over to a corporation of for profit corporation that is only accountable to its shareholders and counts their vote in secret is the ultimate crime against democracy. on tuesday millions of americans went to vote for the candidate or ballot question of their choice thanks to more than a decade of election privatization we'll never know whether their votes actually count or that's a shame it's time to return to paper ballots that are counted by actual human bein's ireland and canada try to electronic voting machines eventually a band of them ireland just spoiled theirs for scrap metal a few months ago it's time we followed their lead privatizing the vote is just absolutely insane it's time to scrap corporate controlled electronic voting machines and return our to our elections to where they belong in the hands physically of we the people.

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what cable television during the day chances are you've seen an ad warning about the dangers of transvaginal mess the ad model of it might have looked something like this. surgical mask alert transnational mass implants have been linked to pain infection scarring bolland bladder perforations you are in every problems and additional surgeries if you or a loved one suffered medical complications from a transnational mass implant you may be entitled to financial compensation transvaginal most is used to treat multiple health conditions and women but it's most commonly used to treat tell that organ prolapse or pop but there's there is hugely serious complications and side effects that can result from transvaginal most surgery including infection pain urinary problems blood vessel perforation and

death but the problems continue even after surgery the problems with transvaginal mess have become so widespread that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of lawsuits have been filed against the companies that make the product just yesterday transvaginal mess manufacturer indo international p.l.c. reached a staggering eight hundred thirty million dollars settlement with women who suffered serious side effects from the product meanwhile the corporate action network of consumers right group has launched an unprecedented campaign against johnson and johnson the biggest manufacturer of pelvic mess joining me now is mark fleishman president and founder of the corporate action network mark welcome this is this is a product that it was never tested never tested by the manufacturer never tested by the f.d.a. put in thousands and thousands of women's body it's changing their life for the

worse give me your take on what your network is doing your activist network to turn all this around. the corporate action network was founded to address a greek use corporate abuse and with johnson and johnson and the other mesh manufacturers produced was a product that was never necessary in the first place tens of thousands of women have been have been injured hundreds of thousands of women have been implanted with mash it is the mutilations the the damage has been extraordinary and we started this campaign focused on johnson and johnson and its ethicon division and we were shocked to to discover that thousands of pages of documents had been destroyed and hard drives have been wiped clean after retention order had been issued and i had drafted a letter to attorney general holder demanding

a criminal investigation and that is currently under review you know let me this is such an agreed i've been i've been handling complex cases for thirty years this is one of the worst conduct i've seen in a long long time we came across the document you're familiar with this tells you what the attitude of johnson and johnson is towards the women's whose lives they've destroyed they talk about component of it they describe it is is this. it says this is not going away any time soon and competition will have a field day major damage control offensive needs to start to educate the reps and surgeons up front they will see this blue s.-h. i-t. not our words and it's ok this is why i wanted to launch t.v. the other words they're saying we have a component of this thing we don't understand it we don't hundreds understand what's making women sick we don't even know what the world is we've never tested it

but we're going to save this money by putting this blue stuff in there we're going to charge we're going to charge almost a thousand dollars for the product that cost us twenty nine dollars because the blue stuff they're talking about that they don't understand they're putting in women's bodies all over america the groups that you've put together the groups that you put together activist groups are changing all that aren't you. we are and i have honor of joining together with survivors women like a still taz twenty nine years old when mesh was implanted she's had twelve operations since that time the mesh has a row did the measure rode it into her uterus part of her uterus had to be removed she was no longer able to have children she recently adopted a child and a still stood up she stood up in new brunswick new jersey at the annual shareholders meeting to make sure that other women had someone that could speak for them robert fish who who also i had the honor to be with who adored his mother his

mother had mesh implanted and the same the same damage but resulting in so much pain unbearable pain robert would visit his mother every day in the hospital and finally his mother darlene fish took her life and robert came to new jersey to make sure that as a voice as a legacy and as honor to his mother to make sure that other women did not suffer this those are stand the stories are incredible the stores are incredible we see stories that have drug addiction because the pain is so bad ruin marriages ruin thirty and forty year marriages the female can they can no longer have any kind of sexual relationship you have this product this been put into their body that is extruding through the vagina actually extruding from the front of the vagina extruding to the rectum and this company has known how bad this is and to this day

they have never studied to find out how to make this product safe now this is johnson and johnson the biggest manufacturer of this product in the country and the first time they took notice of this was when you showed up at their headquarters and you had these activists say mad as hell saying you better listen to us isn't that what happened this is. so this is a great story because you made something happen here that's what i think is so important marc you made something happen here what your take on that well last week at the annual johnson and johnson shareholders meeting they love to hold these events as private affairs and we were able with survivors to go inside of the johnson and johnson meeting because we had proxies and the women who were there were able to tell their story they were able to speak directly to a room of eighteen hundred investors the johnson and johnson board the johnson and

johnson officers and others and we were able at the end to meet with chairman gorski and and members of the board. and we had a huge effect following on the heels of that the f.d.a. has now issue proposed orders which would in effect if these proposals turn into orders when in fact required recall this product mark look at this started with you it started with a young attorney named brian al stock who thought it was a horrible thing that was taken place with your help hopefully we can do this kick this can all be turned around mark placement thank you for joining me well thank you for having me.

been gazi is back today speaker of the house john boehner called for the creation of a special committee to look into the september twenty twelve benghazi attacks boehner call it comes after the release of the new white house e-mails that republicans have been crazy about and fox news have jumped all over arguing that they are proof of a conspiracy to cover up being god. which is ridiculous meanwhile the house oversight committee chairman in lead been gazi which honor darrell lies to issued a subpoena for secretary of state john kerry to testify before his witch hunt committee about bin ghazi before darrell eyes it begins badgering the secretary of state it's worth taking a look back at who darrell ice the really is and why he doesn't deserve to be in a position of power at all here's tom. it was on june ninth one nine hundred fifty four during the thirtieth day of the so-called army mccarthy hearings when republican senator joe mccarthy was investigating the united states army for

communist activities those of welsh that counsel for the united states army at that time had had enough of mccarthy's baseless accusations and lies which hans and hyperbolic partisan rhetoric and call him out in front of congress and in front of the american people. building. up these let us not assassinate lad further. down and. no you. and. i know and. welch his comments help to open americans eyes to the lunacy and absurdity that was joseph mccarthy fast forward some sixty years and here we are again allowing a job mccarthy ask lawmaker to run amok on capitol hill congressman darrell i says

this generation's joe mccarthy or at least the bigots want to be after leading unsuccessful taxpayer funded which funds into the i.r.s. so-called scandal in the bin gazi terror attacks congressman i say has a set cite on something new. obamacare on fox so called is yesterday i said announce that he was officially launching an investigation to find out what exactly went wrong with the rollout of health care about gov and that website i ses. the house oversight and government reform committee now looking for answers as well the chair of that committee congressman darrell issa joins me now good to see you congressman you know we just talked to ed henry and he's trying to get answers from jay carney about what went wrong and jay carney said hey look we're not interested in monday morning quarterbacking but you are right it's only the first few minutes of the first quarter of they'll be trillions of dollars spent on obamacare so yes

this is not monday morning it's real time and you have i saw is particularly interested in investigating the contractor that the obama administration principally used to build the health care dot gov website c.g.i. federal and it's close ties to the white house but as it turns out c.g.i. federal is a major republican party donor in fact during the two thousand and twelve election cycle c.g.i. federal gave two granted their allies say himself and executives the c.g.i. federal personally gave more than twice as much to g.o.p. presidential candidate mitt romney during the two thousand and twelve cycle than to president obama so the company sure doesn't seem like it's too cozy with president obama but all that aside lost in all the coverage of vices made for t.v. which is any discussion on who he really is for starters i i says the wealthiest member of congress worth an estimated four hundred fifty million dollars making it all the more iran iraq that a man who hasn't had to worry about health care costs in a very long time would choose to go after a program that provides millions of uninsured and low income americans with

affordable health care i saw also played a key role in the bush administrations and then attorney general alberto gonzales as politically motivated removal of eight united states attorneys and before he came to washington i saw hyped enron's takedown of california's electric system and spent over a million dollars of his own money on advertisements to destroy and discredit governor gray davis' governorship because he was planning to run against davis in the recall election that he helped make happen but those efforts. fruitless and he broke down into public tears when he learned that enron's ken lay and secretly been meeting and working with arnold schwarzenegger to help schwartz a major become governor and that schwarzenegger had filed his papers. and painted but today the san diego republican was not sold out of his own dream to become governor it's my dislike go. so knowing the truth about congressman darrell i said we really want this generation's joe mccarthy

leading yet another taxpayer funded which up on capitol hill. that. i think we're. trying to. do and i think it's all about money and i'm actually sick for a politician a lot. just to lead. today's by. cop.

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